Thursday, September 18, 2014

On the anniversary of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting—a crime
committed by a shooter who passed both state and federal background
checks and maintained a security clearance, and who used a weapon not
affected by any proposed gun control legislation—President Barack Obama issued a statement calling for more gun control laws.

One year ago, our dedicated military and civilian
personnel at the Washington Navy Yard were targeted in an unspeakable
act of violence that took the lives of 12 American patriots. As we
remember men and women taken from us so senselessly, we keep close their
family and friends, stand with the survivors who continue to heal and
pay tribute to the first responders who acted with skill and bravery.

At
the same time, we continue to improve security at our country’s bases
and installations to protect our military and civilian personnel who
help keep us safe. One year ago, 12 Americans went to work to protect
and strengthen the country they loved.

Today, we must do the same –
rejecting atrocities like these as the new normal and renewing our call
for common-sense reforms that respect our traditions while reducing the
gun violence that shatters too many American families every day.

Obama provided no specifics proposals in his brief statement, but
posturing by gun control groups acting in concert with the White House
suggests a shift away from bans on “assault weapons” towards a concerted
effort to impose “universal background checks” as a de facto gun
registry for all future firearm sales.

School Tells Kids to Remove American Flags On 9/11

Sometimes good intentions have unintended consequences.
Just ask the principal of Woodruff High School in Spartanburg, South
Carolina.

Principal Aaron Fulmer made national headlines this week
after he directed students to remove American flags from their pickup
trucks on September 11.

The patriotic teenagers had mounted large American flags in their truck beds – in violation of a longstanding school policy.

The
policy, which has been in place for more than 20 years, bans anything
that creates a disturbance on campus or draws an unusual amount of
attention to itself.

“A bumper sticker is not going to do that
from a distance, but a pole flag is,” Superintendent Rallie Liston told
me in a telephone interview. “The American flag was never an issue for
us. It was never anti-American flag. It was just no pole flags –
period.”

Liston said the original rule was created to prevent students from showing up at school with Confederate flags.

“It was inflammatory,” the superintendent told me. “Finally, we reached a point where we said no more pole flags.”

American
flag bumper stickers are fine. So are American flag T-shirts. But
students simply cannot fly American flags in their pickup trucks. Such
behavior is impermissible.

As the superintendent explained, it prevents someone from showing up with something offensive.

“If
it’s an American flag – everybody is excited about it,” he said. “But
what if it’s the Nazi flag or another flag you might not be congruent
with?”

As you might imagine, the school’s decision has led to lots
of protests and name-calling. A group of parents even stood outside the
school waving American flags.

Superintendent Liston says all the anti-American accusations are just as far from the truth as can be.

“These are the most God-fearing, flag-waving, patriotic people you will ever find,” he said. “They are God and Country.”

But
he said that with the growing fears over the Islamic State as well as
the 9/11 commemoration – he realized at bit of hindsight was necessary.

“We
dropped the ball with 9/11,” he told me matter-of-factly. “In hindsight
we apologize to any veteran or service person for this happening. That
was not our intent. It was just a rule that has been consistently
enforced.”

In the meantime, he said there’s a good chance that next year the school will host a special program commemorating 9/11.

“I don’t want to ever get in the position where we take the American flag down again,” Liston told me.

Superintendent Liston seems like a true Southern gentleman – and I believe his apology is sincere.

As we say in the South – you know when somebody’s cooking your grits. And Superintendent Liston was not cooking my grits.

Nevertheless, it’s deeply troubling when any public school suppresses the patriotism of American teenagers.

What is about beheading that is contagious among devout Muslims? Jihad.

In the largest terrorist raids led by Australian Federal Police led to the arrests of 15 jihadists. Law enforcement foiled a plan where jihadists were planning to kidnap random public members and behead them on camera.

MASSIVE: The Daily Telegraph reports at least 600 officers
from the Australian Federal Police, ASIO officers and the NSW counter
terrorism unit launched the strikes before dawn this morning.

HORRIFIC details have emerged of a plot to behead an
Australian and upload it to social media in a deliberate attack against
the country.

While the claims remain unconfirmed, Channel Seven reports one the men charged in this morning’s raids in Sydney planned to kidnap a random Australian, execute them by beheading and film the act and post on social media.

Meanwhile Channel Ten adds the man planned to drape the victim in an ISIL flag.EARLIER

ASIO and the Australian Federal Police have launched a number of
raids across homes in Sydney and Brisbane this morning in the nation’s
biggest counter-terrorism operation in history.

The operation is understood to have been given the green light after
months of surveillance of Australians believed to be linked to extremist
terror group Islamic State in Iraq and...

Breitbart
reported last week that “the US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Al Nusra
Front, and the Islamic State have paired together in order to fight
President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Armed Forces, according to statements
from multiple commanders from within the FSA. ‘We are collaborating
with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the Syrian
Army’s gatherings in… Qalamoun,’ said Bassel Idriss, a commander of a
Free Syrian Army brigade.”

In July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area. Worthy News reported
that just two days later, Free Syrian Army rebels “targeted the
residents of al-Duwayr/Douar, a Christian village close to the city of
Homs and near Syria’s border with Lebanon….Around 350 armed militants
forcefully entered the homes of Christian families who were all
rounded-up in the main square of the village and then summarily
executed.” And in September 2013, a day after Secretary of State John
Kerry praised the Free Syrian Army as “a real moderate opposition,” the FSA took to the Internet
to post videos of its attack on the ancient Syrian Christian city of
Maaloula, one of the few places where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is
still spoken.

The House voted Wednesday to grant President Obama authority to train
and arm moderate Syrian rebels waging war against Islamic extremists.

Despite vocal opposition from both war-weary liberals and defense
hawks who feel the Syria plan should include more robust steps,
majorities in both conferences voted 273-156 to back Obama’s plan to
give military aid to vetted members of the Free Syrian Army.

The total yes vote included 114 Democrats and 159 Republicans;
opposition was just as bipartisan, with 85 Democrats and 71 Republicans
voting no. The Syria language was considered as an amendment to a
stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1.

The House later Wednesday is expected to pass the $1 trillion
continuing resolution or CR, and will then send the full package over to
the Senate, which is expected to approve it on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Obama pledged that he would not send in ground
troops to fight ISIS, saying it’s more effective to support military
allies “so they can secure their own countries future.”

How To Save America And Create 20 Million Jobs Instantly

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Pat Buchanan to Mitt Romney: Run for President in 2016

By Bill Hoffmann / NEWSMAX

Pat Buchanan has some no-nonsense advice for Mitt Romney on the 2016 Republican presidential nomination:

Go for it.

"It's very hard for me to see how someone could look at the fact that
he's got a real shot at the nomination and then walk away from it when
the man believes he ought to be president," Buchanan said Wednesday on
"The Steve Malzberg Show"

"If it were me and I looked at those kinds of numbers, I'd be on the next flight to Manchester," Buchanan said.

Romney — who has insisted for months he has no interest in running again
after a crushing loss to President Barack Obama in 2012 — acknowledged
that "circumstances can change."

A day after Romney made that teasing statement, a USA Today/Suffolk
University poll found 35 percent of likely GOP caucus voters would vote
for the former Massachusetts governor in 2016.

Buchanan — a veteran political commentator, former GOP presidential
candidate and senior adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford,
and Ronald Reagan — said he is impressed with Sen. Rand Paul.

He doesn't think, as some pundits have suggested, that the Kentucky
Republican — in preparation for an expected run for president — is
mainstreaming his positions and selling out his libertarian views.

"I wouldn't use that term on Rand Paul. I like him, but there's no doubt
you've got to deal with certain realities . . . He's a realist in
foreign policy. He's not an isolationist," Buchanan said.

"There's no doubt that some of the Libertarians are critical of Rand
Paul and they feel he's not a purist and he's not as hard-core as his
father [former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas]."

But Buchanan says Paul will be supported by his core base.

"You saw the poll: in New Hampshire, he's at 15 percent, I think, 5 percent ahead of anybody," he said.

"But nobody's got any real support, except Romney was not in the poll, which is very interesting."

Point blank...our troops are needed to protect our unsecured borders
and our troops might soon be sent back to Iraq to prevent those wanting
to kill us all from doing so...but what does Obama have planned for our
troops...he's sending 3000 of our bravest over to Liberia to try and
help stop the spread of Ebola. That's 3000 American lives Obama is
willing to put at risk of directly contracting one of the most deadly
diseases known to man, as well as opening up the possibility of 3000
Americans becoming 'carriers' of said disease...'carriers' who then
infect others... and so on down the line.

Another calculatingly devious move by the man whose goal it is to
bring down America any way he can...and this time it's by 'culling the
herd' if you will courtesy of a sinister little nasty called Ebola.

But the truth is that Barack HUSSEIN Obama has NO business getting
American military personnel involved in this...a medical
crisis...period. Our troops are fighters...are America's warriors...sent
overseas to win wars and to both secure and help keep the peace (at
least that was always their mission pre-Obama)...they are NOT trained to
play doctor. And with many Africa countries having already seen and
come through numerous Ebola outbreaks since it was first documented in
1976, this disease appears to be one that waxes and wanes in cycles,
meaning this current outbreak will also fade out on its own only to be
resurrected again in 'x' number of years.

And it's important to remember that Ebola is primarily a disease of
undeveloped countries...hot, dank, unclean, and unsanitary
countries...countries barely living in the 20th century let alone the
21st. And while it's truly sad to see so many people sick and dying
(half infected die and half infected survive), and as bad as this
current epidemic appears to be at this point in time, it too will run
its natural course like it has all the other times Ebola reared its ugly
head.

And the fact is that due to our unsecured southern border 'We the
People' face a tangible and very serious health crisis of our own as
Barack HUSSEIN Obama has put out the welcome mat for any and all who
wish to come here ILLEGALLY...for any and all to enter our country
bringing with them diseases we here in America had long thought
gone...bringing with them antibiotic-resistant diseases like certain
virulent strains of TB.

So why is Obama doing this...why is he deliberately sending our
troops into harm's way...why is he risking American lives to save people
who hate America...two words say it all...'political gain.' Saying the
current Ebola outbreak "is a looming threat to global security and that if the outbreak is NOT stopped now, hundreds of thousands of people may become infected,"
but let's be honest here...Barack HUSSEIN Obama does NOT care one iota
about our troops being exposed to a deadly disease nor does he care about 'certain' (as in Christian) groups sick
and dying in Africa...what he cares about is turning around his tanking
poll numbers... numbers so low that members of his own party are
deserting him like rats desert a sinking ship...deserting him as
November looms large.

So what better way to become a hero of sorts...to turn those numbers
around...than to have the world perceive him as the man who helped stop
the spread of Ebola never mind that Ebola...like I've said so many times before...will
burn itself out on its own accord...in its own due time. Plus now he can continue to say...to lie...that with our southern
border situation now under control there is NO need to send any of our
troops there.

And why pray tell does a medical problem in Africa have, as Obama claims, "profound implications for us all," especially
when Ebola has NOT morphed into being airborne transmitted nor does it
show any sign of it doing so any time soon NO matter what the
naysayers claim. Ebola is NOT 'Captain Tripps' of 'The Stand'...it is
NOT a virus that can be easily manipulated in the lab nor will it spread
unchecked to kill countless thousands within days or weeks as some who
love to cry wolf say...for in its current mode of transmission Ebola
is a virus that can be somewhat easily contained until it once again
naturally burns itself out by simply halting all travel...especially air
travel...both in and out of the countries affected.

And what are the all-important details of Obama's decision to send
our troops to Africa...first, the cost, as in $763 million of our
taxpayer dollars will be spent on what he calls a "military-led plan"
to help stop the spread of Ebola and prevent it from reaching the
U.S. (when that money should be spent on securing our southern border)...second, calling for more doctors and health care professionals to
voluntarily go into Ebola infected countries...third, having the
military build more portable hospitals, laboratories, and other medical
facilities...and lastly, increase training for first responders and
other medical officials throughout West Africa.

To have our military build more portable hospitals, laboratories, and
other medical facilities Obama said...to have our troops labor to aid
in what he deems a humanitarian crisis while the real tangible crisis at
hand...while the real threat to the American homeland will be fought
with 'limited and targeted' air strikes and with NO boots on the ground.
Whatever happened to the president's main job of protecting the
American citizenry above all else...protecting Americans before rushing
to the aid of others...especially others who have NO love for
America or Americans.

So as Vladimir Putin flexes his muscle in Ukraine...as Iran rattles
its saber and continues to stir the pot of the so-called 'green
soup'...as the South Korean man-child does whatever he wants while
continuing to thumb his nose at the world...and as America is faced with
a 'NO Strategy' strategy of divert and deflect...ISIS continues to grow
stronger and more brutal with each passing day...all while Barack
HUSSEIN Obama's main focus is on an outbreak of Ebola in Africa.

And for
that he's willing to put our troops health and welfare in danger for
those infected are his brethren of sorts...mostly (but NOT) all being both muslim
and black...and sadly for we Americans those two things trump all for
the racist in presidential clothing...for the muslim occupying the White House...for the man who would be king.

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